Summers are great because I have more time to try out new software. With the work on the upcoming language technology boot camp manual (released next Friday! more on that soon), I learned a lot more about inDesign CS3.
But that program is a behemoth, sometimes overly complicated. So I am also a big fan of [...]
Great Little Application
July 13th, 2008 · felix · No Comments ·
Tags: free software • software
Office 2007: now with more language-y goodness
January 30th, 2008 · Ryan · No Comments ·
[cross-posted on techotuesday]
After two days of Office2007 training, I’ve a few pieces of info that might be of interest to language folks:
Publish Directly to Blog
This is pretty cool: if you don’t like your blog’s online post editor, or frequently need to blog when no intartubes are available, Word can automagically take content you’ve created in [...]
Tags: languages • learning centers • office2007 • office2008 • software • windows
Tech-o Tuesday #7: Web Apps on the Desktop
November 20th, 2007 · Ryan · 2 Comments ·
Recently I’ve noticed a trend towards taking web apps and integrated them more fully into the desktop environment so they act more like normal locally-installed software. (Which seems to defeat the purpose of using web apps? But I digress.) This week’s episode is an overview of three major pieces of that trend: the $200 Walmart [...]
Tags: podcasts • software • web apps
Saturday Stuff: more free apps
October 6th, 2007 · Ryan · No Comments ·
Hello again from Denver! Here’s yet -another- list of free apps that I hope you find as interesting as I did …
bFree: a freeware program built by UNC-Chapel Hill that allows you to open a Blackboard course’s archive file, to view the documents in a usable file structure, and to extract files individually or in [...]
Tags: software
In lieu of a Tech-o Tuesday: six great web resources
October 2nd, 2007 · Ryan · 1 Comment ·
I know, I know - it’s Tuesday and we haven’t had a new episode of Tech-o Tuesday in what seems like forever! Well, Felix and I have been incredibly busy and / or sick, but we’re scheduling the next episodes right now. In the meantime, I finally found an evening to sit down and read [...]
Tags: disruptive technologies • podcasts • software
